Ruchika Molestation

• Chandigarh: Candle light vigil to mark Ruchika's death anniversary

  A candle light march was held on Wednesday evening at Panchkula near Chandigarh to mark the 17th death anniversary of Ruchika Girhotra, who committed suicide three years after her molestation by former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore. Her family had vowing to continue its fight for justice.Among those who participated in the march included friends of Ruchi...

• Teen molester cop SPS Rathore leaves jail

  SPS Rathore walked out of a prison neat Chandigarh with a smile on his face - provoking comparisons to December, when he smiled as he left a court after being convicted for molesting a 14-year-old named Ruchika Girhotra.Rathore was accompanied by his wife, Abha, who is a lawyer and defended him in court. He  was granted bail by the Supreme Cou...

• Ruchika's molester SPS Rathore released from jail

  Former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, serving sentence for molesting a teenager, is finally free. Hours after his release order was signed, he walked out of Burail Jail on Friday evening.The Supreme Court had, on Thursday, granted him bail. The court has, however, asked Rathore not to leave the country.The court ordered the release of Rathore observing h...

• No evidence to back charges against Rathore: CBI

  The CBI today said it had found no evidence to support the allegations made by Ruchika Girhotra's family against former Haryana Police Chief SPS Rathore, at present serving 18-month jail sentence for molesting the teenager in 1990, and filed a closure report in a court here.      The CBI gave a point-by-point rebuttal to al...

• Ruchika Girhotra case: Molestor cop Rathore wants parole to fix tractor

  After four months in prison, SPS Rathore is desperate to get out. And he may soon be granted a 42-day parole he's asked for, ostensibly to attend to his farmland. In May this year, Rathore, who retired as Haryana's senior-most policeman, was sentenced to 18 months for molesting 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra in 1990. That verdict came after an incens...

• Ruchika case: High Court rejects SPS Rathore's bail plea

  The man who was once Haryana's senior-most policeman will stay in jail for molesting a teenager named Ruchika Girhotra.The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed SPS Rathore's plea  challenging the 18-month jail sentence given to him by a lower court in May this year.Rathore, 68, is currently in jail.In December 2009, he was sentenced to ...

• Wife meets SPS Rathore in Burail jail in Chandigarh

  Abha Rathore, wife of ex-Haryana DGP S P S Rathore, awarded 18-month prison term recently by a court in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, on Saturday met him in the high-security Burail jail in Chandigarh.Abha, who appeared as a counsel for the former top cop, spent nearly an hour with him in the prison, a jail official said.  She met her...

• Ruchika case: A few more days in jail for Rathore

  Ruchika Girhotra's tormentor SPS Rathore, who was sentenced to a year and half year in jail, has appealed for suspension of the sentence.

• Will Rathore apply for bail?

  A disgraced former Haryana top cop SPS Rathore spent a night in jail after being sentenced to a year and a half for molesting 14-year-old Ruchika. The court directed the jail superintendent to provide proper medical care to Rathore, as his lawyer and wife, Abha Rathore told the court that he was a heart patient and required care. She is expected to...

• Ruchika case: Rathore gets enhanced sentence, arrested, to go to jail

  A court in Chandigarh today enhanced former Haryana top cop SPS Rathore's sentence to one-and-a-half years for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra 20 years ago. Rathore has been taken into custody and will go to jail.Rathore, a former Director General of Police, had challenged the six-month sentence awarded to him by a CBI court in December last fo...

• Ruchika case: Verdict on SPS Rathore's plea today

  A sessions court in Chandigarh will pronounce its verdict today on the plea of former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore challenging the six-month sentence awarded to him by a CBI court for molesting Ruchika Girhotra. (See: Ruchika's story in pics)Ruchika's family and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have also filed petitions seeking enhancement of t...

• Ruchika case: Verdict on Rathore's plea deferred till May 25

  Verdict on the plea of SPS Rathore in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case has been postponed till May 25. The disgraced former Haryana DGP had appealed against a six-month sentence.  "This is nothing unusual. This has been a long drawn out case and these things happen," Ruchika's father S C Girhotra said.The verdict was to have been delivere...

• Ruchika case: Verdict on Rathore's plea postponed till May 25

  Verdict on the plea of SPS Rathore in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case has been postponed till May 25. The disgraced former Haryana DGP had appealed against a six-month sentence. The verdict was to have been delivered today, but the judge needed more time to write the order.  A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court had held ...

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  Rathore says assailant Utsav tried to murder him

  SPS Rathore, who molested teenager Ruchika Girhotra 20 years ago, has sought that the man who assaulted him outside court last month be booked for attempt to murder.

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  Bail plea hearing of teen-molester-cop Rathore adjourned

  Justice Sabina adjourned the case after CBI counsel Anmol Rattan Sidhu told the court that the agency was investigating the case and needed more time.